After two World Eaters' vindicators showed by Mormeg, time for my vehicles of this kind. Considering that Imperial Fists are famous siege and fortifications masters, I decided to paint four vindicators. They may be broken up and used as attachements to detachements or I can use them as a detachement in its own rights too. I think I will paint some more vindicators too, but for now four of them is enough.

Painting is really simple - just yellow with black accents. I miss one thing from the newer models of this vehicle - blade-shield. It is a great place to paint some additional details. Unfortunately, first version of vindicators models lacks this shield, so I decided to paint chevrons on mud guards instead.

Newest addition to my brother's army - Fellblade in World Eaters colors. This is a superheavy tank, with a special slot in Epic HH army composition named Lords of War. Model was bought second-hand and it was released unofficially, of course, by some fans.

Painting is very similar to vindicators shown here a few days ago, based on Fellblade 28mm scale model released by ForgeWorld. Black basecoat, white, then black wash and white drybrush. Final touches were made with heavily watered down white paint painted with layers, with more layers on surfaces afar from tracks. World Eaters icons come from previous decals sheet, released by FW for this legion.

One of my necessary additions to make my Imperial Fists Horus Heresy era force legal were dreadnoughts, which will be usabe as upgrades for detachements or as a unit in its own right. I painted four Contemptors in order to field them separately too.

Models were released as a part of Epic Stompers box from 2nd edition of epic.

I was really suprised when our epic Horus Heresy era armies were counted above 2000 points each. Mormeg's is well above 2500 points, mine slightly above this mark. So, it seems that after painting few missing miniatures, to make detachements legal, we will be able to play finally.

My brother managed to paint two vindicators first - they will be upgrades for his other detachements. Miniatures were released in winter of 1989 - ages ago. It is the first epic version of this vehicle, if I'm not mistaken. Just two years later those models were replaced by much uglier vindicator mk. 2 models. The biggest difference between those oldies and newest epic vindicators is lack of doze blade/shield on the front.

Painting was really straightforward. Mormeg describes it as "White, with thoroughful wash of heavily dilluted black paint, twice or thrice, to better accentuate details. Then all model was drybrushed with white paint and details were picked up with white again. Blue color is a little too bright in comparison to the other, earlier painted vehicles, but it will be corrected a little bit".

Few days ago I received a new product released by young Polish company Hexy Workshop. Miniature is labelled as Metanel Robuster - 32mm scale cyborg from Star Scrappers universe. Star Scrappers is a new games' universe created by Hexy for its upcoming products - boardgame (which is fully designed and awaits for production), some addons to it and - possibly - a miniature wargame.

Miniature is sealed inside large plastic blister with additional cardboard inside. Reverse side of it shows original hexagonal code - it will allow for viewing chosen models in special mobile app, which is currently in production. Nice touch, when it will be finalised.

Inside blister there is quite a lot of parts, some of them are tiny and fragile. I was afraid that they will get damaged but fortunately all of them were in pristine condition.

Quality of cast is very good. Resin is hard and brittle though, so one will have to be very careful cleaning the parts. There are virtually no miscasts, soft edges, holes, etc. - all parts are very nicely casted. On some of them there was a very thin resin foil, which is easily removed with a knife or a hard brush. Miniature itself is designed with ball joints, so it is possible to position both legs and arms according to one's wishes.

I will use my Metanel as civilian mining servitor (or maybe cargo hauling servitor) in WH40K game. Photo of painted miniature is taken from producer's webstore.